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Esra Plümer Bardak

ESRA PLÜMER BARDAK

Esra Plümer Bardak is an art historian, writer-researcher. Esra earned her PhD in Art History from the University of Nottingham as well as a second postgraduate degree in Arts Management and Cultural Policy from Queen's University, Belfast. She has worked in academic posts as Lecturer since 2007 and has delivered invited talks across Europe, the UK, Turkey and Cyprus about art and art history. Her research specialises in 20th-century art, artistic strategies related to the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatric treatment methods, rethinking art history narratives, and canon formation in conflicting histories and archives. She is the author of Unica Zurn: Art, Writing and Post-war Surrealism (IB Tauris, 2016) and has contributed to scientific journals and edited books internationally, most recently Contemporary Art in Cyprus (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Theorising the Artist Interview (Routledge, 2024). In addition to publishing, Esra has also curated exhibitions that echo her research in the UK, Turkey, and across the divide in Cyprus. She holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design, and is part of the curatorial team of Arkin Group. She is a member of the International Association for Art Critics, AICA Turkey.

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